try,* and with your kind permission beg leave to remark, that over the western entrance into Bingley Church may be seen five shields of arms belonging to families formerly located in the parish, all in their proper position, whilst on another part of the same building, evidently of a more recent date, there are three shields reversed, or the wrong side up; but, owing either to the softness of the stone or deficiency of workmanship, only one of them can be made out. This, however, will be found to correspond with the central shield in the other group in every thing but its inverted position, being the arms of Paslew, an ancient family which flourished at Riddlesden Hall for more than two centuries, and which became extinct in the male descent about 1 James I. The steeple was certainly erected before, and the south aisle where the reversed arms are to be seen after, the extinction of this family. Three of the other shields grouped with that of Paslew on the western face of the steeple of the church will be found to represent the Maudes of West Riddlesden Hall, now in the Irish peerage; the Savilles of Marley Hall, a branch of the wellknown Yorkshire family, now represented by the Earl of Mexborough; and Binns of Rishworth Hall. The remaining shield in this group is probably too much effaced for recognition. Allow me also to add, that the arms of Ferrand and Busfield make a conspicuous appearance on the walls of this ancient and respectable parish

church.

Yours, &c. W. K.

MR. URBAN, New York, June 1. AS one of your American readers who has for several years drawn instruction and pleasure from your columns, I beg leave to make inquiry of some one of your learned antiquarian correspondents relative to a character who appears in our early New England history, and also in

*We think this question will not be answered in the affirmative unless other instances can be adduced. In the case before us it is possible that the stone or stones on which the shields are sculptured have been reversed by an ignorant mason. -Edit.

your contemporary annals. This person, concerning whom I desire in this manner to learn something further, was Col. George Fenwick, a Cromwellian, a member of the Long Parliament, and also previously a provincial agent of the Puritan Lords Say and Sele, and Brooke, in New England, where he founded a jurisdiction called Say-brook, and where he lived and presided several years. Returning however to England, he took an active part in the Civil struggle of that period. He died in 1657, in Sussex, where his will was legally proved.

His wife was Lady Alice Boteler, who died in America, and whose tombstone without inscription is still standing on the bank of the Connecticut, near her ancient residence in Saybrook, alone in a common field, an object of curiosity to the stranger, and of hereditary interest to the inhabitants.

Mr. Fenwick is stated by Winthrop, the ancient historian of New England, to have been of "Gray's Inn," which may perhaps give a clue to some existent record respecting him.

I am desirous of obtaining additional particulars, if possible, respecting both of these individuals-from a purely historical motive-as to their families, residence in England, marriage, birth, education, time of decease, &c. so far as ascertainable or authenticable from records, books, or monunumental memorials; and therefore should one of the contributors to the Gentleman's Magazine feel disposed to direct some investigation to the subject of this humble inquiry, and communicate its results through your columns, it will, while coming perhaps within their legitimate sphere, and interesting some of your British readers, confer a favour on one at least on this side of the Atlantic.

I am happy in being able to add that there appears to be a general awakening of a true historical feeling in this country, with reference to the carly ties of consanguinity and origin, which made us, as a people, for the most part from a band of English emigrants, a plantation of British hearts of the pure Anglo-Saxon lineage. Deriving all that is a pride and a blessing to enjoy from that common maternal bosom, it is natural enough

for those of their descendants who have inherited a spark either of their taste or reverence, to begin to gather up the fragments that remain concerning that generation of our boldhearted fathers, who were fresh from their-in their own recorded phrase"dear old England." And some of us, who have been smitten with antiquarian sympathies, must confess to a degree of this filial feeling yet making us curious to trace back our ancestors to the original homestead in the land that bore them, however homely it may have been, in hamlet or in town; delving her ancient soil, or pursuing her other paths of manual or literary life, mingling in her stirring scenes of civil or religious activity, and growing up into manhood under the influence of the venerable laws, language, social customs, and Christian institutions of our common time-honoured, worldrenowned island mother.

And who that has the interests of both countries at heart will despise a historical tendency so creative of fraternising bonds, and so powerfully

adapted to keep alive in our bosoms the spirit that has given both to Old and New England all their glory?

Much interesting family and personal history lies along the line of the early English colonisation of this country in a yet undeveloped and disconnected state, which needs only to have its broken threads taken up and tied together at the points of emigration and re-settlement into social life in their new home in America, by the industrious fingers of your and our antiquaries, to yield a rich harvest of genealogical and anecdotical lore.

Our numerous historical societies, of which almost every State in the Union can boast one, have done and are doing much towards preserving the frail memorials of our early history. That instituted in this city contains an extensive collection of books and manuscripts, as well as many relics of the aborigines of the soil, and forms a nucleus of devoted labourers in the antiquarian field.

Yours, &c. NOVANGLUS.

IN the complete description of this interesting but now ill-used church which was published in our Magazine for December 1846, especial mention was made of the very remarkable feature, of which we now present our readers with a view.

The church, it will be remembered, consists of a nave, a tower, and a chancel; the tower standing between the two other members. In that portion of the eastern wall of the nave which is north of the archway leading to the tower, is the recess here represented, fitted with columns and arch mouldings, which, as being formed of wood, in work of the thirteenth century, are very remarkable and perhaps unique. The recess is 12 feet high and 6 wide: its sill being 4 feet from the ground. The mouldings are alternately dog-tooth and small tori, all springing from clustered columns, with bell-bases and capitals. capitals are adorned with foliage, and were painted red, while the columns GENT. MAG. VOL. XXVIII.

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